FSM’s third box set, the MGM Soundtrack Treasury, features 20 scores from the
United Artists film library and record catalog. Many of these titles are long-treasured LPs that looked as if they
would never make it to CD: Billion Dollar Brain by Richard Rodney Bennett How to Murder
Your Wife by Neal Hefti Charge of the Light Brigade by John Addison The 7th
Dawn by Riz Ortolani The Final Option by Roy Budd it is likely that every collector
will have his own set of favorites!

All of the titles have been remastered from the best-possible stereo source tapes in the MGM archives, with these
exceptions: Goodbye Again and Shake Hands With the Devil are in “electronic”
(simulated) stereo; and the two Ennio Morricone scores are in mono, with The Hills Run Red largely taken
from vinyl (the only available source for the recording). For most of the scores (and the United Artists catalog in
general), the album masters are the only surviving recordings, but complete masters were located for
The Fugitive Kind (Kenyon Hopkins) and The Happy Ending (Michel Legrand) allowing
complete-score presentations. Finally, Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (Lalo Schifrin) and
Hornets’ Nest make their debut presentations in complete form. Two additional notes:
The Glory Guys (Riz Ortolani) is the LP re-recording, but bonus tracks have been added from the London
session masters, and The Final Option is a hybrid of the Varèse Sarabande and Milan LP programs
(containing all of the previously released tracks).

Unlike our first two box sets—Elmer Bernstein’s Film Music Collection and
Superman: The Music—the MGM Soundtrack Treasury is not packaged with a deluxe book. Instead,
the box set comes with two “clamshell” or butterfly cases—each containing six discs—and a
48-page booklet containing album covers, track lists, credits and a short introduction.

FSM has not abdicated its responsibility in providing the world’s most obsessively complete and detailed
liner notes! Comprehensive notes for all 20 of these classic scores are available free of charge (to anyone)
right here at www.filmscoremonthly.com/notes. (By publishing
these notes online, we are able to offer this box set at a significant savings to you, our loyal customers.)